Eva Moosbrugger
Eva Moosbrugger (born April 11, 1957 in Stuttgart ) is an Austrian painter and sculptor .
Life and education
The Stuttgart-born artist grew up in Dornbirn and Zurich and works in Dornbirn and Venice . From 1974 she studied various painting and material techniques and from 1981 participated in several exhibitions in Europe, the USA and Japan.
In 1984 she made the transition to three-dimensional art with wall and room installations made of wood, iron, concrete and stone, and from 1985 she worked intensively with raku ceramics , integrating ceramic objects into her installations. She has been a freelance artist since 1988 and has made use of private and public work and travel grants and has taken part in international symposia and conferences.
In 1989 she started stone carving and in 1992 attended the summer academy in Salzburg, where she met one of her teachers, Jim Dine , and worked with drawings. In 1995 the first work with glass followed. In 2009 she made her first large-format works made of welded steel and cast bronze.
According to the artist's own statement, the “Friendly Thoughts” recently shown in several exhibitions show the embodiment a three-dimensional translation of the artist's thoughts in the form of sculptures made of glass and thus convey her positive thoughts in the most varied of variations.
Exhibitions
- 4th Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz, 2009
- European Glass Context, Museum of the Art, Bornholm, Denmark 2008.
Works
Her works are represented in the following collections:
- State Museums in Berlin , Germany
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft , Denmark
- Glasmuseum Frauenau , Germany
- Federal Chancellery Vienna , Austria
- Vorarlberg State Museum , Austria
- City of Dornbirn , Austria
- Würth Foundation , Germany
- Uwe Holy Collection, Switzerland
literature
- Eva Moosbrugger: Pure Glass Objects 1999–2007. with texts by Ursula Ilse-Neumann, Rosa Baravier-Mentasti and Peter Niedermair. Hohenems 2007, ISBN 978-3-902612-02-1 . (also in English)
- Rosa Barovier-Mentasti: The Venetian Sculptures by Eva Moosbrugger and Astrid Frey: Poetry made of Glass - Eva Moosbrugger and her sculptures. In: Eva Moosbrugger - Sculpture in glass - works from 1996 to 1999. Hohenems 1999, ISBN 3-900851-64-6 .
- Various exhibition catalogs
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glas Galerie Linz - Eva Moosbrugger ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alexandra Mitter: "Friendly Thoughts" in Perg. In: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich. Monthly magazine of Upper Austria. Culture, 66th year, episode 2, March 2012, with the Upper Austria. Museum journal. Friendly Thoughts in Perg. (PDF; 3.7 MB)
- ↑ Triennial of Sculpture ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moosbrugger, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |